Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-26
LOCAL JOTS.
Ter Carnival is coming.

The Paper Carnival is coming.
Everything but real estate is dull.
The Hallew-Hart variety combination is
billed all over town.
Silver in New York was quoted at from
96H to 9615. Lead, $3.50.
The work at Garfield Landing is being
held back for want of lumber.
for the Paper Carnival at the Opera House
tonight.
Wells, Fargo d. Co. have received fine bars
amounting to $685., 1896; ore, $6,71S. Total,
$329,314.
There is a message at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for Mrs. Pollard, in care of
Mrs. Wilson.
Last night a burglar broke in and robbed
a store on Third South street. No tracks of
the thief are to be found.
The Ryman block, opposite the old DEMO
Graf building, was yesterday sold to J. C..
Conklin and w. p. Noble for $4,000.
Mccormick d Co. to-day received Hanauer
bullion, $4,000; Bannock silver, 81 200; silver
and lead ores, $500. Total $12,5OO.
The G. A. R., in honor of General Grants
birthday, will meet at p. m. tomorrow.
The evening will be passed in speeches, etc.
The annual statement of the Nashville
Insurance Company was to-day flied with
Secretary Hall, by John w. Irons, the local
agent.
Ogden has a curfew law which fails to
keep the boys at home at nights; but th at
isn't the worst of it, it fails to keep the
cops out at night.
Mr.. j. r. Drinkwater of Sandy, and Miss
Elite Eatchel, of Murray, were married at
the White House parlors at 2 O'Clock this
afternoon by Judge Zane.
Mary, the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Beattie, who was taken suddenly i'll
a few days ago, died last evening. Dipthe-
ria is the supposed cause.
j. b. Haggin, the California horseman
with Hamilton, his jockey, and a special
horse car with eighteen racers, are en- route
to New York to attend the spring meet.
The lastnumber of the Western Merchant
Omaha, prints full accounts of the organi-
cation of the Salt Lake and Ogden Boards
of Trade as published in The DEMOCRAT.
A match game of billiards will be played
in the Walker House on the 29th inst. be-
tween Josh Arthur and Josh Davis for q
purse of 800. The former plays 800 points
to the latter's 400.
A boy who was playing ball at the Driving
Park on Sunday last didn't come to grief,
but just close by it. The wheel of buggy,
which was going at a three-minute gait,
wiped grease on his pantaloons.
The following deputy registration officers
for Plute county were to-day appointed by
the Commission: A. S. Mayhem, Burgess
Precinct; John w. Hunt, Kane Precinct;
William Beattie, Grave Valley.
A novel iron cuspidor in the shape of
turtle, is on exhibition on Main street to-
day. When the head of the turtle is stepped
on the she'll over the back will raise, and
expose a vessel at which one can aim his
tobacco juice.
The Home Dramatic Society of Silver
Reef, is recognizing under the management
of Al. Thorne, a veteran Salt Lake actor.
Preparations are being made for an enter
talnment to be given in few days-South-
erl Utah Times.
Superintendent Sharp, of the Utah Cen
trail, to-day received telegram stating that
twenty-five men are wanted as section hands
on the U. 7. road. Here is a chance for
every one to get work by applying to A. F.
Doremus, of Bishop Sharp's road.
Some parties who are sinking an artisan
well on the State Road say, that they are
down two or three hundred feet, and that
tor the last fifteen feet they have been bor-
ing through solid wood. This most curious
state of affairs will most likely necessitate
their replacing the present boring imple-
ment used, with a wood bit.
In the Police Court yesterday James Judd
was fined $40 for being drunk and using
profane language; Joe James $40, for steal
ing ride on the ID. d. r. g.; John Roadway
$15, for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct and r. Steele $40, for combination
of drunkenness and profanity. James and
Roadway paid their fines, but the rest will
take up their abode in the burglar-proof |
dwelling behind the City Hail.